Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Quote by Eric Hoffer
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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
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Eric Hoffer Quotes
- Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
- When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
- Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
- We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
- Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
- Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
- The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
- Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
- The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
- The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Best Quotes
- I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
- It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
- Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
- Simple steps are complex when manouvering.
- A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
- If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.
- Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
- We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
- According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
- When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.